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    My pleasure Clive, and thanks for ID'ing it. Are any Pigs left in the "Cyprus configuration" (for lack of a better term)? Is this survivor representative for the type in service at that time and place (source: http://www.bredow-web.de)? It must have been in the pre-UN white colour scheme. That is how I remember the British military vehicles on the island in the early 1970s. - Hanno
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    See what they were up against - tracked armour! H.
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    Another pic of the same Pig. H.
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    Clive, Here´s another Pig on Cyprus. No details other than it was taken in 1964. Do you know 30BK09? Hanno
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    I see one of them was originally a sand colour. Here´s a pic of a Pig in such a colour (Light Stone?). Source: http://www.bredow-web.de - Hanno
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    It is an M7B2, but without its gun. H.
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    Howard, Excellent find! As it was Nicolas Straussler who designed the chassis for these trailers, look up the articles Bart Vanderveen wrote about him. For further info refer to some back issues of Wheels & Tracks magazine: http://www.afterthebattle.com/wtlist.html I could get you scans, but not before the end of next week. Hanno
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    Well then, let´s copy and paste the link to make it easy for the rest of us. http://www.hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=6962 H.
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    Excellent, really does not look out of place because they are so unobtrusive. Where does one buy these sort of LED lights? Do they come in 6V? Thanks, Hanno
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    I have a web page with some pictures of the Sexton´s at SECO in 2000: http://www.geocities.com/shermanregister/seco.htm At that time Sherman Register Contributor Joe DeMarco found fifteen Sexton 25 pdr SP Guns in various conditions, which were the last of the batch of 47 SECO bought from the Portuguese government. At that time they were priced at US$9,800, as Adrian said this later dropped to US$5,000. I know of one that went back to Canada, a couple to the UK and I think even one to Holland or Belgium. - Hanno
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    Wonderful story, shows there´s always some humanity lurking about on the battlefields! H.
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    Indeed, here´s my web page about my exploits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanno_the_Navigator
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    Sounds like a spec better than the 1:1 original I see why every small girl should have one, it´s a great project to suppress a budding interest in ponies and start some bonding with dad! The Toylander Land-Rovers look particularly good, I think their Geepster is less convincing. See http://www.film.queensu.ca/cj3b/Toys/RidingToyPlans.html for some more jeep plans. H.
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    With all the US interest, eveyone will be convinced the Yanks landed single handedly in Normandy, and liberated Europe all by themselves. That´s the impression one gets when touring around the Normandy area. Now let´s check the facts: On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. The American forces landed numbered 73,000. In the British and Canadian sector, 83,115 troops were landed (61,715 of them British). One of those 21,400 Canadians I knew personally, sadly he is being buried today. . . - Hanno
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    Indeed, but it wasn´t to repair the 1944 bombing damage, but to repair the devastating 1953 flood damage. A museum is now housed in one of the caissons! See http://www.watersnoodmuseum.nl/en_GB/index.html - Hanno
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    This is a fake. Someone had some good fun with photoshop! - Hanno
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    Go Britain, go! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6018151.ece
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    It's a Dodge WC-51 with a Body, rear, fantasy, Mk.I
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    Duncan, If not by the Polish Armed Forces (PSZ) in the West, they could have been used by the Polish People's Army (LWP) in the USSR, as the Soviet Union was supplied with GMCs as well besides Studebakers. Go for it! Hanno
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    Thanks for postings those pics here, Les. I see swb CCKW-352´s and even GMC CCK-353 6x4 Cargo trucks, but no open cabbed CCKW-353 ones. I think Duncan should apply some artistic license and just go ahead and apply Polish markings on his GMC. Even could go all the way and apply the Italian theatre camouflage scheme of bold standard patterns of Blue-Black over a basic colour of Light Mud! - Hanno
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    I agree too on the Lancia. The tank seems to be a carro d'assalto Fiat 3000, albeit with changes to the track system. Seems it was replaced by that off a crawler tractor at a more recent date. Could have been used as a crawler tractor, hence the loss of the turret and the glacis plate. After entering service in 1921, this Renault FT-17 clone was first used in action in February 1926 in Libya. That could explain the presence of a survivor in that country. Fascinating stuff still to be found out there, eh? - Hanno
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    I don´t know what a weeks wage was for someone working on the assembly line back in WW2, we would have to look into the Big Mac Index, errr, Mars Bar Index, wasn´t it? But Sherman price tag of $45,000 in 1945 would about $421,875 in 1999. H.
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    Joris, See Sherman's 1945 prices: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/spoelstra/g104/cost.htm Note these are prices, not manufacturing costs. HTH, Hanno
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    Duncan, I hope you do realise that when you do this you will develop the urge to buy a C47 as well, don´t you? Hanno Source: http://www.pbase.com/kees_s/image/83744341
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    Hi Duncan, Pleasure to meet you here, last time we met was at Beltring ´06, when we sat down a couple of evenings off the back of your father in law´s Matador. I´m the big bald Dutch guy, a friend of Maurice, who is on this forum too. Glad to hear you got that GMC you were talking about, I´ll keep my eyes peeled for CCKW´s in Polish service. Say hi to the family! Regards, Hanno
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